St. Paul daily globe., 1887-11-06

! ana laugn mySelf, Dut Wnere reason stops
| romance may have Its course. Yours, +. L.
Thursday-The news / have just read is
| worse, great deal worse, than ever. Yes
\ terday believed was in distress; now
| know what distress is. Listen: everybody
| has gOne-father, mother sister and Helene
! father, she and sister left the city Sunday.
| Yesterday the Wallachian arrived. Helene
! had written him from Rigi Kaltbach break
| Ing the engagement. To-day at z the mother
left the city with him. 1t seems that they
want to marry Helene to the Wallachian
somewhere, and then L will kill him In
duel, or, II he refuses to fight, shoot him on
| the street like mad dog.
Now | ask another service from you, Holt
hOff. Write to her father. ask him in my
name and yours to promise me one thing, not
Helene, but three months time-he shall
promise not to marry her off within three
months. He shall give me three months
time to gain his-his-his own consent. Tell
him that long list of crimes and tragic
events will result IRON his stubbornness.y [
would kill the husband and run away with
her to America. Now | will go to the king IN
Munich. Don't lose moments time to
write to Mr.. Doenniges. Years, F. L.
|, The interest of the king was excited,
and he made the request. Before any
advantage could be taken of the privi-
lege, Lasalle received letter saying
I Helene had deserted him. He had
written six letters to Helene, mean
while; five of them were lost, and the
remaining one is preserved in this copy:
|, Aug. 10, 1s64.-Helene: They say that
you want to give me up, but it is impossible.
No treachery could tear from you such con-
cession. No power can tear you from me II
you keep faith and are loyal to me. But if
you should violate your oath, after SO
many protests and after all the suffering
have gone through for you, then human
nature would be dishonored; man might
doubt every truth, every assurance, OF 10y
\ atty; our whole existence would be a lle.- So
III.
exalted and under pains OF insanity, be-
loved women, give me one word that you
are true to me.
1t is not known that Helene ever saw
this last letter. That one already men
toned, wherein Helene resigns Lasalle,
reads as follows: sA<
Mr.. Lasalle: After becoming honestly
reconciled to my intended, Mr.. JancO Won
Racowitz. and regrettIng all that have done,
and winning his love and confidence back to
me, hereby declare to you of my own free
will, and with perfect satisfaction aa to its
justice, that there can never be any uilon
between us; that repudiate all that has ex-
listed between us, and l am determined to
give my love and loyalty to my intended for
ever. 30 HELENE.
Upon Lasalle's expectant and heated
brow this letter descended with the
tranquil iciness of shower bath. His
constant heart suspected the parents
responsibility for this change, and he
pictured Helene to his friends as one
lacking in moral stability and determi-
nation. TO HOlthoff he writes:
approve of everything if it only succeeds.
We will take her with treachery or with force.
l would take her if she were diShonored. |
will accept anything if | can win Helene
back. myself will attend to the old man.
l am the jackass that cannot be disputed.
Yours unconSOled. LAsALLE.
On Aug. a he returned to Geneva,
where Helene had preceded him some
days, determined to hear his death war
rant from her own lips. On the 25th he
had conference with Helene'S father.
as arranged by the king. The meeting
was wOrdy battle, vigorously and vim
dictively pursued on both sides.
Helene's father was forced to admit that
his daughters letter wOS not wholly un-
Influenced by him.
LaSalle had arranged for meeting
between Helene and himself at no
tary'S Office, that he might personally
question her, but she refused to see him,
and TO certain of his friends she said, on
Aug. 26;
"Why should | see him? know what
he wants. | am sick of the whole buSl-
ness" The friends reminded her she
had sworn to be true to him, but with
that feminine superiority to obligations
peculiar to the sex i'll no one country,
she replied:
''Oh, promises, promises. l often
make promises
But in the Pension Bovet, when you
called there you didn't talk in this way"
the friends argued, very much to the
discontinue of Helene, who was exceed
ingly modest about having any of her
daring acts applauded by the multitude,
and who explained:
'Well, that's so; but that was due to
the excitement of the moment. teo,.
|. Again being urged to become serious
and to see him, she merely said in re-
SpOnSe:
NO, it's no use, no use"
The friends pursued the subject an
other step and promised that the inter-
T view should be brief, wllereupOn Helene
with:
''Oh, brief. L guess not; know La
sale; he likes to hear himself talk; he
WON'T finish for two hours, anyway.
+ BY this time the visiting statesmen
were pretty well weakened and they
! just managed to gurgle out:
''Well, you ought to give him some
satisfaction
''Him." she replied. ellis vanity you
! ,meaD."
There was nothing left for the COM
llllLltc ~ Say OlIltl llldu SOOu-DNO,
which they did as well as they knew
how and got out. Lasalle was COM
pletely demOraliZed when the report
was given him and could appease his
wrath only by bathing the earth i'll
blood. He prepared to shake things up
by challenging Mr.. Won DCennigeS,
| Helene's father and Mr.. Won RacOwitz,
| her atfianced.
| WHY HELENE DESERTED LASALLE.
Helene gives her reason for deserting
| LaSalle in letter. She writes:
For days and weeks the whole family was
urging me to leave Lasalle and not ruin them
all. They came every day. lamented and
| cried with me; my mother especially. |
| didn't hear one word from Lasalle, my
strength weakened, pressure was brought to
bear upon me, was very sick. Then there
came a night when said to myself, Your
| life has lost its brilliancy and its brightness:
the man for whom you have suffered
all this has deserted you. Is it right that 1
should jeopardize the happiness and pros
perity of my entire family for personal graft
| fication.' The next morning ] spoke to my
mother while my heart was breaking. and
| said:
IF your happiness calls for it. if it must
| be- well. resign my happiness, resign La
| salle" To my intended | said:
| IF ever see Ferdinand again will go TO
him, will live with him even though my
own hands will help to poison and kill you
| all if you interfere
When | heard of the duel between Janco
ana Lasalle | said to myself: If Janco is
killed and they bring him to the house there
will be great excitement, no one will be there
| to watch me. l can run away, can run to
Lasalle'' That Lasalle could have fallen III
| the duel never occurred to me.
All letters from Helene to LaSalle
were intercepted and opened by the
family.
The duel with Janco took place on
Aug. 2S, 1864, Helene's father having
declined the challenge on account of old
age. JancO had the first shot and
wounded LaSalle so badly that he died
| Aug. 81.
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